UNC Asheville’s F-Word (Feminist) Film Festival will feature filmmaker Jennifer Lee in a lecture and screening her film, Feminist: Stories from Women’s Liberation at 7 p.m. on March 17 in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.
The screening and her lecture, The Women’s Liberation Movement and American Cultural Memory, are free and open to the public.
Feminist: Stories from Women’s Liberation traces the development of the feminist movement from 1963-1970. The film features 35 diverse interviewees, including activists and well-known feminists such as Betty Friedan, Frances M. Beale, Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan, who share memories of the period as well as issues and challenges that still resonate today. Feminist won “Best of the Fest” for documentary at the 2013 Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival, and was an official selection of the Cincinnati Film Festival.
Lee is also the director of the documentary, Mary Jane Colter: The Desert View, which was narrated by Ellen Burstyn. She currently serves as an ambassador for the Global Media Monitoring Project, which monitors the representation of women in global media.
Lee’s lecture and film screening is part of UNC Asheville’s Women’s History Month. For more information, visit msp.unca.edu or contact Lori Horvitz at [email protected] or call 828.251.6590.